OK, so somehow I had a different, newer version of laptop-mode-tools
than lucid. I probably got it accidentally from a PPA. My original
("THE BUG IS") bug report is sort-of bunk as far as lucid goes, though
this may appear in the future if (when) hdparm is updated.
The normal "fix" (see above) of purging laptop-mode-tools and adding
regular old /etc/hdparm.conf lines for apm=254 and apm_battery=254
worked once I downgraded to the lucid's laptop-mode-tools. For most
people having frequent laptop-drive-kerchunks and high load cycle
numbers from SMART, this will probably be all that you need to do.
I apologize for the noise.
As for why others are still having this problem, I would suspect that
it's either a bug/difference in laptop-mode-tools or (if laptop-mode-
tools is removed but not purged) that some other package is utilizing
the setting from laptop-mode-tools.conf improperly. I think that some
universe gnome-applet or udev script might be doing this, but since I'm
not having the problem myself, I can't really help there.
I'm going to leave this set Incomplete so that the other person who is
having the problem can still use this bug report to seek a solution.
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hdparm sets power management value to 128 in AC mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513706
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